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New comment by yehoshuapw in "Why older tech is sometimes safer from hackers"

yehoshuapw — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 16:55:44 +0000

mostly, because setting up a separate network is harder.

a virtual network built upon the regular internet is much easier.

And yes, mostly done wrong

New comment by yehoshuapw in "My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality"

yehoshuapw — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 08:05:08 +0000

I don't know. I fully agree, and never did really try out this in depth yet.

I suspect rules with negations are not the same as don't rules, but unknown if really true, if so:

"when writing code do not add comments, code should not need it" may work

New comment by yehoshuapw in "My agent.md to improve LLM-assisted code quality"

yehoshuapw — Mon, 24 Aug 2026 07:42:08 +0000

I've come recently across arxiv 2604.20911

which claims "do" rules persist much better then "don't" rules.

New comment by yehoshuapw in "Dancing with friends and enemies: boids' swarm intelligence (2012)"

yehoshuapw — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 06:52:04 +0000

I find it fascinating how (in the new version) the further away clumps stay separate, until something small from the larger swarm reaches them, then they all merge back to it

New comment by yehoshuapw in "$580M undersea cable rerouted to avoid the grave of Dobby the House Elf"

yehoshuapw — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 15:09:14 +0000

while I do agree with this point, I want to point out that this isn't quite a fair comparison.

every single entity has (normally) a single (real) burial site. Us grouping many unknowns in one group, and comparing to a single specific one is not quite fair...

there is only one burial site of many other fictional characters including some other well known and beloved ones.

New comment by yehoshuapw in "Can a MUD evaluate LLMs? A $99 proof of concept"

yehoshuapw — Wed, 22 Jul 2026 18:28:47 +0000

discworld mud (any many others) ase still totally worth playing

New comment by yehoshuapw in "Duskers, the scary command line game, is getting a sequel"

yehoshuapw — Thu, 16 Jul 2026 08:08:14 +0000

iirc "nav" works to, and all commands have a shorter prefix which works

New comment by yehoshuapw in "What's slowing down the AI buildout"

yehoshuapw — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 06:22:40 +0000

While that is true, if there is something worthwhile enough in a far and safe location - it won't stay that way

New comment by yehoshuapw in "Pi square is nearly 10"

yehoshuapw — Sun, 05 Jul 2026 11:55:34 +0000

And https://xkcd.com/1047/

New comment by yehoshuapw in "Professor denounces mass AI fraud on an exam at Brown"

yehoshuapw — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 11:32:27 +0000

I think this isn't quite the right example - a pocket calculator does not need you to verify its output. It is better to be able to calculate, but if you can't seems much less a issue then using a AI without being able to do whatever you asked of it

(So I fully agree with your point, but I think your example is not strong enough)

New comment by yehoshuapw in "Polymarket has flooded social media with deceptive videos by paid creators"

yehoshuapw — Tue, 23 Jun 2026 11:33:19 +0000

and perhaps somewhat safer

New comment by yehoshuapw in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

yehoshuapw — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:46:42 +0000

can you please expand on your thoughs on the thumb cluster?

(I have a dactly I kind of finished wiring, but didn't get around to programming it yet)

New comment by yehoshuapw in "GnuCash is right. It's also why I built my own finance app"

yehoshuapw — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 15:30:40 +0000

I've slowly built up a set of scripts to do this: too many different methods, but eventually I get csv files for each account, then hledger import - and finally I manually fix up details